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Energy-efficient, utility accrual scheduling under resource constraints for mobile embedded systems

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Binoy Ravindran,

E. Douglas Jensen,

Peng LiAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), Volume 5, Issue 3

Pages 513 - 542

https://doi.org/10.1145/1165780.1165781

Published: 01 August 2006 Publication History

Abstract

We present an energy-efficient, utility accrual, real-time scheduling algorithm called ReUA. ReUA considers an application model where activities are subject to time/utility function time constraints, mutual exclusion constraints on shared non-CPU resources, and statistical performance requirements on individual activity timeliness behavior. The algorithm targets mobile embedded systems where system-level energy consumption is also a major concern. For such a model, we consider the scheduling objectives of (1) satisfying the statistical performance requirements and (2) maximizing the system-level energy efficiency, while respecting resource constraints. Since the problem is NP-hard, ReUA allocates CPU cycles using statistical properties of application cycle demands, and heuristically computes schedules with a polynomial time cost. We analytically establish several timeliness and nontimeliness properties of the algorithm. Further, our simulation experiments illustrate ReUA's effectiveness and superiority.

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ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems Volume 5, Issue 3

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DOI:10.1145/1165780

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